Shit Claims to Fame IIMy car was in the Specsavers advert with the old lady and the loud stereo. Not me. My stupid blue Nissan Micra. Tell us about your brushes with fame.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 15:49)
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Lost in translationGoing to have my name on the cover of a book I translated next spring. It should have been out by now, but i missed the original deadline. Still, what's the worst that can happen?
Well, the author dying last week so he'll never get to see it published in English, that's what.
A very eminent academic in his home country, so much so that national newspapers not only carried his obituary, but also a eulogy from the president.
Still, if he'd been a bit less slapdash with the citations, the translation wouldn't have been late in the first place. That's my excuse.
(, Sun 23 Sep 2012, 1:11, Reply)
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